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Jan. 19, 1937. N. BULWA ET AL. 2,068,393

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/=" ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 19, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Brooklyn, N. Y.; said Bulwa Feibusch assigner to said Application May 16, 1934, Serial No. 725,882

4 Claims.

This invention refers to sample tabs of the kind used for displaying goods, for instance samples or pieces of fabric.

More particularly the invention relates to tabs 5 in which such samples may be readily mounted upon a suitable backing, for instance on a display card or in a sample book, so that the sample is spread, lies at and/ or shows to advantage.

The various objects of our invention are as follows:-

1. To provide a tab in which a sample may be readily and conveniently inserted, such tab being arranged in a simple fashion, so that it may be handled by any layman; at the same time it holds the goods properly and exposes it advantageously to the observer.

2. To provide for a tab which displays a maximum amount of the sample in a properly spread fashion, and which also spreads, tightens and even slightly bulges the goods in order to provide a greatest possible effect upon the eye.

3. To provide means for properly engaging a sample, which facilitate the'proper placing of the ygoods into the tab, and which assure that the goods remain flat While the tab is being closed.

li.V To provide for a tab in which the sample is engaged and mounted by a simple folding operation in one direction.

5. To provide for a tab in which, by way of a simple folding operation, the goods are properly engaged and at the same time the tab, by folding, obtains the proper stiffness so that it offers a strong backing for the sample.

6. To provide for a display of the sample in same width in full folds upon opposite sides so that a view of the sample is offered in which the light plays thereon at all angles.

'7. To provide a simple folded tab in which a sample is permanently and orderly mounted, and which retains the sample so that the tab may be opened, and which readily permits an opening of the tab and allows an inspection of the sample with light shining therethrough, and from both sides.

8. To provide a simple tab, which may readily be opened for the purpose of touching, feeling and testingY thegoods, and in which the goods are retained during such operationsy in orderly fashion so that the tab may readily be closed again for the ordinary display purposes.

9. To provide a tab, in which a Yplurality of samples may be assembled for the purpose of contrast and comparison. Provision is also made a plane, and for the display of the sample in thev that one sample may be mounted permanently in the tab, but others may be added at random or exchanged at will, without disturbing the first sample. At the same time the other samples will be held firmly and properly.

10. To provide a tab, simple in form and economical as to material and manufacture.

These and other objects of this invention will be more clearly understood from the following description and the accompanying drawing, in Which1- Fig. l shows the back view of an unfolded blank.

Fig. 2 shows a tab` from the back', in which one sample is mounted; another sample is being inserted for comparison. vl5

Fig. 3 shows the face view of a sample tab with which a second sample is assembled for comparison.

Fig. 4 shows the face view of a sample tab as mounted on a backing.

Figs. 5, 6, '7, and 8 are back views of tabs with samples, illustrating thesuccessive steps of closing up the tab.

While it is understood that the tab of this invention may be executed in various modifications, we have adhered to one specic form of tab throughout the drawing, in order to facilitate a clear and unequivocal understanding of the principle of our invention.

The developed tab of Fig. 1 exemplarily forms a rectangle comprising four sections, oblong plies II, I2, I3 and I4, which may be a continuous sheet of exible material, e. g. paper. The dotdashed lines l5, I6 and Il indicate scoring which facilitates the folding of the various plies upon each other. From opposite sides of one of the plies, e. g. ply I3, extends flaps I8 and I9, as known in this art, one of said flaps, I8, being made longer, so that it may provide for a legend in the customary manner. One of the plies, e. g. I3, is provided With an opening 20, which serves as a window. This Window may be given any desired shape. But we prefer to extend it into adjoining plies, e. g. I2 and lil, so that, in the case of the rectangular window shown, tWo corners 2l and 22 are in ply I 2, and other two corners 23 and 24 are in ply I4.

The widths of plies I3, I2 and II are predeterminedly related to each other so that each one is of the same width as or a little wider than Vthe next one, and so that ply II may be folded onto ply I2; the folded together plies I I and I2 fold onto ply I3, and ply I4 may be folded on top of the said folded plies. It is also an intent of this invention to have the folded-in plies fit snugly 55 within the folds of the other plies which are folded thereover.

Our tab may be used as followsz-A sample 25 is laid onto the back of the tab, as shown in Fig. 5, face down, so that the back 26 of the sample is exposed to view. Then the ply II is folded over, into the position shown in Fig. 6, so that the sample is now engaged between plies II and I2 and extends therefrom over the other plies.

Folding plies II and I2 over again, into the position of Fig. 7, the sample is wedged by the transverse free edge of tab II into the fold between plies I2 and I3 so that it is held squarely, and so that the sample is bulged and tightened over the said edge and may possibly be seen from the back of the tab a small edge of the face 21 of the samples being thus exposed. In order to facilitate the understanding of the drawing, the back 26 of the sample 25 is hatched in spots, indicating woven threads, whereas a pattern of oblique stripes is shown on the face 2l of the sample 25.

As a last assembling operation, the ply I 4 is folded over, pulling the sample tightly over the front of ply I I, the sample tab now having from the rear the appearance of Fig. 8. If it is turned over from that position so that it is seen from the front and is then mounted upon a sample card 23, by being inserted between two slits 29 and 3B thereof, the sample tab will oiier from the front the appearance depicted in Fig. e.

If we fold the sample back when the tab is in the position of Fig. 6, the sample tab will have the appearance shown in Fig. 2. We now may deposit another sample on the ply I4, for instance a sample 3! in the folded position shown. If then the tab is folded over again, by straightening out the sample E and folding plies II and I2 onto ply i3, and plies Ii, I2 and i3 onto ply I4, the tab offers the View of Fig. 3, with the sample 3i engaged therein.

We may Xedly mount the sample 25 between the plies SI and I2; after they have been folded over onto each other for instance after they have been folded over cn each other in the position of Fig. 6, they may be stapled together by means of a clip 32. Or we may gum the free edge of ply II by an adhesive 33 so that the ply II will engage upon the sample when folded over` and the ends of ply I I will permanently engage upon ply I2. Or we may apply a dab of adhesive to the sample, as indicated at 34 in Fig. 5, either only a small amount, so that it adheres to ply E I or I2 or a larger amount so that the adhesive penetrates the sample and engages upon ply I2 as well as ply I I. When the sample is thus engaged upon the tab, it may be readily held up against the light, as in the modification of Fig. 6, and the observer may glance through the goods by way of window 20 or the free end of the sample may be picked up and may be handled in the folded back position indicated in Fig. 2, so that the texture may be subjected to scrutiny by touch.

Although we have shown and described one form of embodiment of our invention in detail, yet we do not wish to be limited thereby, except as the state of the art and the appended claims may require, for it is obvious that various modifications and changes may be made in the form of embodiment of our invention, without departure from the spirit and scope thereof.

What we claim is:

l. In a sample tab, a plurality of connected plies, one of said plies being provided with a window, two other plies being disposed consecutively on one side of said one ply and substantially registering therewith when folded thereonto.

2. In a tab for exhibiting a sample of ware, a

plurality of connected plies, one of said plies 9 being provided with a window, two other plies being disposed consecutively on one side of said one ply, and an adhesive on oney of the abutting faces of said two other plies for engaging said sample.

3. In a sample tab, a plurality of connected plies, one of said plies being provided with a window, two other plies being disposed consecutively on one side of said one ply, and a sample engaged upon one of the abutting faces of said two other plies.

4. In a sample tab, a plurality of connected plies, one of said plies being provided with a window, two other plies being disposed consecutively on one side of said one ply, a sample, and means engaging one side of said sample between said two other plies.

NATI-IAN BULWA. EMANUEL FEIBUSCH. 

